{"id":15234,"date":"2017-12-04T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T09:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=15234"},"modified":"2017-12-02T12:29:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T12:29:39","slug":"ben-bransfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/ben-bransfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Bransfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thaw<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leeks<br \/>\nand cutlery<br \/>\nbent beyond belief.<br \/>\nHitler\u2019s descant recorder<br \/>\nand the Valleys school where<br \/>\nthey had sacrificed one meerkat<br \/>\nfrom Chester Zoo every January.<br \/>\nAfter the warming the free coffin lid<br \/>\nthat for years housed the real Mona Lisa<br \/>\nand a necklace of pearls and dried foreskins<br \/>\nfrom a seventh century rabbi, still with a catch.<br \/>\nThe first female driver of the number 15 in Atlanta,<br \/>\nlying flat as if sitting up, and a ball of someone\u2019s washing<br \/>\nin the sack of an aquarium design duvet cover. Before long,<br \/>\nmy brother, perfect, as he was on holiday at Barmouth, wearing<br \/>\nhis Save the Whales t-shirt, his mop of hair blonde again, defrosting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Ben Bransfield<\/b> is one of the Poetry Society\u2019s Teacher Trailblazers and his first pamphlet-length collection features in<a href=\"http:\/\/ninearchespress.com\/shop.html#!\/Primers-Volume-Two-Bransfield-Miller-&amp;-Thompson\/p\/82531038\/category=8486213\"><i> Primers: Volume Two<\/i> <\/a>(Nine Arches Press, 2017). His poems have appeared in <i>The North<\/i>, <i>Stand<\/i>, <i>Obsessed with Pipework<\/i>, and <i>Ash<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Thaw Leeks and cutlery bent beyond belief. Hitler\u2019s descant recorder and the Valleys school where they had sacrificed one meerkat from Chester Zoo every January. After the warming the free coffin lid that for years housed the real Mona Lisa and a necklace of pearls and dried foreskins from a seventh century [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15293,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15234\/revisions\/15293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}